Pandiraaj reveals Jayaram and Urvashi starrer ‘Parimala & Co’ was born out of an assistant director’s challenge

Director Pandiraaj is gearing up for the release of the upcoming Tamil movie ‘Parimala & Co’ starring Jayaram and Urvashi in the lead. Recently, during a media interaction, the filmmaker shared that the story was written during the lockdown period after a challenge from one of his assistant directors.As per a report by IANS, Pandiraaj said his assistant director, Ashwin, who later directed the successful film ‘Couple Friendly’, suggested a web series on an OTT platform and asked him to watch it. After watching the series, Pandiraaj felt he could write a similar kind of story in just a week. Ashwin then challenged him to do it, and the director accepted the challenge."I watched it and told him that I could write stories like the one he had suggested in a week's time. He said, ‘Do it.’ I accepted his challenge and did this story," he said.Pandiraaj said he completed the story after taking up the challenge. As the writing process continued, more situations were added to the script. The team also started improving and expanding the story.The director explained that they later discussed making it a dark comedy. This idea gave the script a different flavour and helped shape the film into something more unique. Once the script was completed, Pandiraaj kept it aside for some time without making immediate plans to turn it into a film."After completing it, I kept it aside. That was the time director Jagan and my assistant Divya came. They saw this script and said, the writing in this was fantastic and wanted me to do this script as a film first," he said.Their positive reaction gave Pandiraaj the confidence to move forward with the project. The film eventually developed into what is now ‘Parimala & Co’, which marks the director’s 12th film.‘Parimala & Co’ is said to be a thriller-comedy that revolves around a family and the different personalities of its members. The film begins in Chennai and later moves to Coimbatore and Palacode. Apart from Jayaram and Urvashi it also includes Santhosh Sobhan and Sanchana Krishnamoorthy in important roles and Sandy, Ananthika Sanalkumar, Yogi Babu, Mysskin, Singam Puli and Baks.